Coronial

477 results for blunt trauma

TAShospital2023-05-03

Coroner's Finding: Flight, Anthony John

Male·Multiple injuries including thoracic vertebral fracture and blunt trauma of thor…

… seatbelt, it was not correctly fitted at the time of impact. He sustained thoracic vertebral fracture and blunt trauma to thorax, abdomen and pelvis, dying two days later at Royal Hobart Hospital despite best medical e…

trauma surgerygeneral surgery
TAScommunity2023-05-23

Coroner's Finding: Vanderfeen, Jacinta

54y · Female·Blunt trauma of the head and chest caused by being crushed by a falling tree

Jacinta Fay Vanderfeen, aged 54, died from blunt trauma to head and chest after being struck and crushed by a falling gumtree while assisting a friend duri…

NSWhome2024-11-08

Inquest into the death of Chi Khanh Huynh

52y · Male·Significant blunt head trauma suffered from an assault inflicted by known person…

Chi Khanh Huynh, a 52-year-old man with long-standing drug dependencies and prior head trauma from a September 2018 scooter accident, died following a severe assault by Cheng Chia involving multiple p…

forensic medicinetoxicologymethamphetamine
VIC2017-06-29

Finding into death of Robert Richard Hoff

50y · Male·Blunt force trauma to the head and aspiration of gastric content

A 50-year-old male was fatally assaulted while walking to work, suffering blunt force trauma to the head and aspiration of gastric content. Despite extensive investigation by Victoria Po…

forensic medicineemergency medicine
TAShospital2021-09-20

Coroner's Finding: Suter, Nigel Douglas

Male·respiratory failure from blunt trauma to the chest sustained in a motor vehicle …

Nigel Douglas Suter died from respiratory failure caused by blunt chest trauma sustained in a motor vehicle crash on 16 April 2021. He collided with a gumtree on Argonaut R…

intensive caretrauma surgerycannabis
TAS2024-03-11

Coroner's Finding: Brown-West, Minunyurra Wanita Lavinia

19y · Female·Multiple injuries including traumatic closed head injury, blunt trauma of the ch…

A 19-year-old female passenger died from multiple traumatic injuries sustained in a single-vehicle motor crash on 25 March 2020, when the vehicle she was travellin…

nitrous oxide
TAS2022-01-21

Coroner's Finding: Freeman, Stuart Clyde Dew

Male·Blunt trauma of the chest and abdomen

Stuart Clyde Dew Freeman died from blunt trauma to the chest and abdomen sustained in a single-vehicle motor vehicle crash. He was driving a utilit…

alcohol
VICcommunity2020-02-12

Finding into death of Stephen James Johnston

57y · Male·Complications of multiple blunt force injuries in a man with ischaemic heart dis…

…ber 2016 by Kevin Knowles and Amanda Bourke after an evening of drinking. Johnston suffered 101 documented blunt force injuries including significant head trauma with skull fracture. The assailants left the scene and di…

emergency medicineintensive caredelayoxycodone
TAScommunity2023-08-18

Coroner's Finding: Taylor, Carter Jim

20y · Male·Blunt traumatic injuries from fall from height

…f edge with friends, he lost his footing, slid down an embankment and fell off the cliff, sustaining fatal blunt traumatic injuries to the head, neck, thorax, abdomen and pelvis. Emergency services responded rapidly wit…

emergency medicineparamedicine
VIChospital2019-01-24

Finding into death of Bella Jayde Lawrence

3y · Female·Complications of blunt force trauma to the abdomen

A 3-year-old child died from catastrophic abdominal trauma caused by her mother's partner deliberately stepping on her abdomen with his full body weight (~100kg), ca…

emergency medicineforensic medicinecannabis
NSWhome2025-08-28

Inquest into the death of KBS

1y · Male·Blunt force abdominal trauma; laceration of spleen with intra-abdominal haemorrh…

A 14-month-old Aboriginal boy died from blunt force abdominal trauma with a splenic laceration on 13 January 2019. He had multiple injuries documented a…

paediatricsforensic medicinecommunicationsystemcannabis
VIC2013-08-19

Finding into death of TH

2y · Female·Blunt force injury to the abdomen

A two-year-old girl died from blunt force injury to the abdomen, sustaining internal injuries including pancreatic rupture, jejunal rupture, a…

paediatric surgeryemergency medicinedelaysystem
TAS2024-12-12

Coroner's Finding: Milburn, Philip Maxwell

39y · Male·Multiple blunt injuries (blunt trauma of the head, facial and skull fractures ex…

Philip Maxwell Milburn, aged 39, died from multiple blunt injuries sustained as a pillion passenger when the motorcycle he was riding on collided with a truck and t…

methamphetamine
SA2016-08-04

Coroner's Finding: MADDERN Raymond Oliver

90y · Male·bronchopneumonia complicating blunt head and neck trauma and ischaemic and valvu…

A 90-year-old man died from bronchopneumonia complicating blunt head and neck trauma and cardiac disease after a fall in a carpark. He was dropped by a taxi at an unsafe …

systemcommunication
NThospital2024

Inquest into the death of Road Death 32 of 2024

78y · Female·Blunt force chest injuries from motor vehicle crash, compounded by chronic obstr…

A 78-year-old Aboriginal woman died from blunt force chest injuries sustained as a passenger in a single-vehicle run-off crash on a remote road in the No…

emergency medicineintensive care
VIChome2014-03-06

Finding into death of Shane Gregory Hunt

48y · Male·Head injury from blunt force trauma

Shane Gregory Hunt died from blunt force trauma to the head sustained during a physical altercation on 26 November 2008 in Werribee. Medical …

forensic medicineneurosurgery
TAS2021-11-26

Coroner's Finding: Roberts Henry Arthur

87y · Male·Blunt trauma of the head and chest

Henry Arthur Roberts, 87, died from blunt trauma to head and chest after being overrun by his tractor on 16 March 2020. He had multiple serious heal…

ophthalmologygeneral practice
TAS2024-01-24

Coroner's Finding: Smith, James Charles

75y · Male·blunt trauma of chest sustained in a single motor vehicle crash

A 75-year-old man died from blunt chest trauma sustained in a single-vehicle crash on 3 March 2023, succumbing to his injuries on 13 March 2…

NSWhospital2016-02-26

Inquest into the death of Rhyan Dickson

23y · Male·complications of blunt force head injuries

Rhyan Dickson, aged 22, died on 4 January 2013 at Canterbury Hospital from complications of blunt force head injuries sustained on 16 October 2011 when he was unprovoked and punched by Darryl John Stacey,…

neurosurgeryintensive care
VIChome2024-06-24

Finding into death of Vincenzo Lobosco

56y · Male·consequences of a physical struggle in the setting of injecting drug use (heroin…

… died following a physical altercation with his friend Darren Heaney on 25 June 2022. The assault involved blunt force trauma to the head and neck. Death resulted from consequences of the physical struggle occurring in …

forensic medicineemergency medicineheroin
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